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the one hundred and twenty were dead of wounds and disease.
The sounds of their sufferings so impressed itself on that
scholarly historian, George Percy, third President of the
Colony, that he pictured it in one of his reports, whose virility
is today, the wonder of the English writers.
"Burning fevers destroyed them, some departed suddenly,
but for the most part they died of mere famine. There were
never Englishmen left in a foreign country in such misery as
we were in this new discovered Virginia. There
was groaning in every corner of the Fort most pitiful to hear.
If there was any conscience in men," says the historian, "it
would make their hearts to bleed to hear the pitiful murmurings
and outcries some departing out of the world, some-
times three and four in a night; in the morning their bodies
trailed out of the cabins like dogs to be buried.-'
It came to the point, "when ten men could neither go nor
stand."
This was the sickly season when, without knowledge of
malarial disease, they were in their half-starved condition at
the mercy of the agues and fevers. But happily, the change
of the season came at last; the winter, a bitter one on both
shores of the Atlantic, drove away the pestilence.
Then came the picturesque incident over which historians
of late have quarreled so much, when according to Smith's
account, his life was saved by the young Indian Princess,
Pocahontas. Time fails to repeat the arguments in this place.
To me they appear to establish the fact beyond reasonable
question. However, that may be, that winter the small rem-
nant of men explored and charted the waters of the Chesapeake
with its noble tributaries to the Falls of the Potomac, where the
Capital of the Nation now stands, as within a short period
afterwards they explored the northern Chesapeake and the
Susquehanna, mapping their discoveries with an accuracy which
is the wonder of the present time.
A conspiracy plotted by Kendall, in the absence of the
exploration party, to seize the pinnace and sail northward to
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